James Comey CNN town hall: Live updates - CNN

James Comey was asked what he thinks can be done to stop mass
shootings in America, specifically those that happen in
classrooms such as the one in Highlands Ranch, Colorado,
earlier this week.

"One of the things we can do much better at is connecting our
educators, our law enforcement and our public health, mental
health community," he said, adding that he's heard there are
"all kinds of impediments to sharing information in
a good way so we can identify troubled
souls earlier and get them the help they need."

Comey doesn't support arming teachers, citing the amount of
training they would need to undergo to be trusted with a
firearm in a classroom among children.

"It's just not a workable solution," he said.

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ago

Comey describes Barr's testimony to Congress as "misleading"

Former FBI Director James Comey told CNN's Anderson Cooper
that he thinks Attorney General William Barr's testimony
regarding special counsel Robert Mueller's report before
Congress was misleading.

Asked if he thinks Barr committed perjury, Comey said he
doesn't know, but it doesn't look like he did.

"He certainly gave misleading testimony," he
said.

Comey went on to say that Barr's testimony wasn't candid.

"The Department of Justice has a duty of candor to the
courts and to Congress. The testimony was not
candid, whether it was perjurious is a much higher
bar," he said.

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ago

Comey hopes he'll have the chance to tell Hillary Clinton
"why we made the decisions we made"

James Comey has never met Hillary Clinton, but the former FBI
director hopes he'll get the chance one day to have a
conversation and explain why he made the decisions he did in
the lead up to the 2016 presidential election.

"Look, I feel badly that she feels like she said in her
book, I think, that I 'shived' her," Comey said. "I
would hope to give her the chance -- I would hope to
give her the chance to understand why we made the
decisions we made."

He said his actions weren't "about trying to hurt her or
hurt Donald Trump or help Donald Trump," and that he
hopes he can one day have the conversation he had with his
wife -- who badly wanted to see a woman elected president --
with Clinton.

"He's an accomplished and very smart person who had
nothing to lose in taking this job but
his reputation, but I really -- it doesn't make me
happy to say this, but I think he has lost most of
his reputation with the way he has conducted himself,"
Comey said.

Asked why Barr was doing what he was doing, Comey said he
didn't know.

"I can speculate, but I don't know. People are
complicated, but it is deeply concerning," he said.

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min ago

Comey: Mueller should testify before Congress to "explain his
thinking"

Former FBI Director James Comey said special counsel Robert
Mueller should testify before Congress so he can "explain his
thinking."

He then went on to explain what he thought was behind
Mueller's decision not to indict President Trump for
obstruction of justice.

"We've got lots of evidence of obstruction of
justice. We're compiling it for a
future prosecutor. So why engage in a really
long battle over forcing him to give us
answers. We'll collect this information, preserve
it for the future, and not waste the time with
that battle. I don't know in hindsight whether
that was the right call or not."

Asked if he thought Mueller made a mistake by not
speaking out and allowing Attorney General William Barr to
define the report, Comey said he thinks it's possible
Mueller would have done things differently.

"I don't know whether it's a mistake by Bob Mueller,
because I don't know whether he anticipated the way
in which the attorney general would act and the
things he would say."

Former FBI Director James Comey said President Obama "faced a
very difficult choice" when it came to notifying the American
public that the Russians were meddling in the 2016 election,
because it would have helped them meet one of their goals --
destabilizing American democracy.

"The No. one goal for the Russians is to damage our democracy
and undermine faith in our electoral process," Comey
explained.

"If [Obama] makes an announcement that the Russians are
coming for the election, has he just accomplished their goal
for them? And is he giving Donald Trump an excuse to say
Obama fixed the election?"

"I get why he struggled with it," Comey said, adding that
Obama did a "very sensible thing" by trying to get the
bipartisan leaders of Congress to jointly tell the American
people it was happening.

McConnell didn't see it that way: Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in March 2018 from
Obama's former chief of staff that he didn't respond properly
to suspected Russian interference in the 2016 election,
saying, "I'm perfectly comfortable with the steps that were
taken back then."

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min ago

Comey on 2020 election: "You cannot have a president who's
a chronic liar"

Former FBI Director James Comey should consider President
Trump's character when their voting for the country's next
president.

"To my mind, this question at the top level is so
obviously answered, you cannot have a president
who's a chronic liar. I don't care what your
passions around tax cuts or regulation
or immigration. I respect difference there," he
said.

Comey continued:

"The President of the United States cannot be someone
who lies constantly. I thought Republicans
agreed with that. It's one of the reasons I'm
no longer a Republican. I hope the American people
will realize we have to start at that values level
no matter what our political background and
answer that question first. And if that's a close
question in an election, then get to the important
policy differences."

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min ago

Comey says DOJ should "take a serious look" at charging Trump
when he's no longer president

Asked if he thinks President Trump should be charged based on
evidence in special counsel Robert Mueller's report, former
FBI Director James Comey said the Department of Justice
should "take a serious look at that.

"I think the Justice Department will have to take a serious
look at that. Whether it's a wise thing to do to a former
president, I don't know. That's a harder question, a much
bigger question than the facts of the case."

CNN's Anderson Cooper went on to ask if he through there was
enough evidence to prosecute Trump.

Comey said: "Sure looks like it's there with respect to at
least a couple of those episodes of obstruction."

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